Reflections of a working writer and reader
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it. D.H. Lawrence, for instance, did seven or eight drafts of The Rainbow. The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better. Revision is one of the true pleasures of writing. Bernard Malamud
Today I’m in Milton Keynes, at Dave Quayle’s Blog, Lillabullero.
Dave has been reading and re-reading Winged with Death for the last week or so.
As well as his blog and website, Dave is a librarian, and knows a thing or two about books.
Why not come over and see what’s happening?
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Thanks, Dave. You really got into it, didn’t you. Your comments on both the first and second reading were gratifying and suitably quirky. I found the commenting form here, so it shouldn’t be too difficult for others.
Nice blog!